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Having problems with your Gateway MX6025 Notebook ?

RELOAD PROBLEMS I bought a new hdd for my laptop, a 120gig drive and used the restore dvd and it loaded window but didnt load any drivers, I went to gateway site and downloaded the drivers but couldnt get the sound driver to load and work or the modem driver. Why didnt this restore dvd just restore everything, I used to be a phone tech at gateway and I have never seen anything like this! I still have the old drive in a external case, I can put it back in but its a slow 4200 rpm drive with a slow

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I'm not sure why they do the things they do, but they don't seem to put all the drivers on their restore disc. Here's what you should do. Since your old hard drive is still good, purchase a usb to ide/sata cable, ide or sata depending on which your hard drive is. This will allow you to hook up your old hard drive to your computer as a slave drive. This is going to help you in two ways 1- the drivers for your machine are still on that drive and you can have the hardware wizard find them there, and 2- you can use the old drive for storage, backup, or whatever.

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